Bug#914135: distribution-and-changes-mismatch not emitted when it should be

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 914135 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Rebecca,

> > libnfs (2.0.0-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
[..]
> > Is this something that may be notified by lintian?> 
> In theory, 
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/distribution-and-changes-mismatch.html , 
> but since it didn't trigger on libnfs, it would appear to be broken.
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I do note that there was a mismatch for this specific upload, ie:

  https://tracker.debian.org/news/946971/accepted-libnfs-200-1exp1-source-amd64-into-unstable-unstable/

… but what is the evidence for Lintian not seeing this? The
maintainer could have uploaded anyway and/or they had an old
version of Lintian, etc.

If you are wondering why it does not appear on:

  https://lintian.debian.org/tags/distribution-and-changes-mismatch.html

... that is because that requires the .changes file to be
around, whilst lintian.debian.org processes source packages (ie.
that particular webpage is pretty useless).


Best wishes,

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